Anna La Torre
@latorrelab.bsky.social
DevBiol, retinas, miRNAs, stem cells & more.
https://latorrelab.faculty.ucdavis.edu
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Anna La Torre
@latorrelab.bsky.social
· Oct 10
New preprints from the lab (3)! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Birds have a thick retina devoid of blood vessels - so how do they ensure sufficient oxygen availability?
They don't - neurons rely on glycolysis, metabolizing glucose released from the pecten.
Insane new study that includes comparative data on lizards and crocs.🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
They don't - neurons rely on glycolysis, metabolizing glucose released from the pecten.
Insane new study that includes comparative data on lizards and crocs.🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Oxygen-free metabolism in the bird inner retina supported by the pecten - Nature
While the photoreceptor outer segments in the bird outer retina have access to oxygen, the inner retina operates under chronic anoxia, supported by anaerobic glycolysis in the retinal neurons.
www.nature.com
January 22, 2026 at 2:14 PM
Birds have a thick retina devoid of blood vessels - so how do they ensure sufficient oxygen availability?
They don't - neurons rely on glycolysis, metabolizing glucose released from the pecten.
Insane new study that includes comparative data on lizards and crocs.🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
They don't - neurons rely on glycolysis, metabolizing glucose released from the pecten.
Insane new study that includes comparative data on lizards and crocs.🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Congratulations to @xinduan.bsky.social on another beautiful story! I'm very lucky to collaborate with you! pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41532830/
January 15, 2026 at 5:53 PM
Congratulations to @xinduan.bsky.social on another beautiful story! I'm very lucky to collaborate with you! pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41532830/
Thankful for my lab and for my community, I couldn’t ask for a better group of people to do science and life with.
Happy Thanksgiving!
Happy Thanksgiving!
November 27, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Thankful for my lab and for my community, I couldn’t ask for a better group of people to do science and life with.
Happy Thanksgiving!
Happy Thanksgiving!
Just a heads up: I just got a phishing attempt pretending to be from the #VisualSystemDevelopment #GRC. It looked pretty convincing at first glance, so be careful!
November 27, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Just a heads up: I just got a phishing attempt pretending to be from the #VisualSystemDevelopment #GRC. It looked pretty convincing at first glance, so be careful!
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Are you or do you know a current undergraduate student who wants to pursue research? Our Summer Program for Undergraduate Research (SPUR) application is now open! (reposting from the MCW Grad school X account)
Apply here: admissions.mcw.edu/register/sum...
Apply here: admissions.mcw.edu/register/sum...
October 29, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Are you or do you know a current undergraduate student who wants to pursue research? Our Summer Program for Undergraduate Research (SPUR) application is now open! (reposting from the MCW Grad school X account)
Apply here: admissions.mcw.edu/register/sum...
Apply here: admissions.mcw.edu/register/sum...
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Our latest paper is out! While the circadian photoentrainment circuit has been extensively studied, the mechanisms regulating its development remain poorly understood. Here we show that retinal Müller glia play a key role in this process. Check it out! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Retinal glia regulate development of the circadian photoentrainment circuit
Circadian photoentrainment depends on intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells (ipRGCs), which convey environmental light information to th…
www.sciencedirect.com
October 29, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Our latest paper is out! While the circadian photoentrainment circuit has been extensively studied, the mechanisms regulating its development remain poorly understood. Here we show that retinal Müller glia play a key role in this process. Check it out! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Fantastic new paper from @pierre-mattar.bsky.social lab!
Chd4 remodels chromatin to control retinal cell type specification and lineage termination
Read this #LifelongDevSI #OA Research Article by Sujay Shah, Pierre Mattar and colleagues
doi.org/10.1242/dev....
Read this #LifelongDevSI #OA Research Article by Sujay Shah, Pierre Mattar and colleagues
doi.org/10.1242/dev....
October 28, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Fantastic new paper from @pierre-mattar.bsky.social lab!
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Our department @ucdavisvetmed.bsky.social @ucdavis.bsky.social is hiring! We welcome research that diversifies or complements existing strengths in gastrointestinal, neuroimmune, musculoskeletal, cardiorespiratory
systems and/or developmental biology. @socdevbio.bsky.social @ascbiology.bsky.social
systems and/or developmental biology. @socdevbio.bsky.social @ascbiology.bsky.social
October 22, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Our department @ucdavisvetmed.bsky.social @ucdavis.bsky.social is hiring! We welcome research that diversifies or complements existing strengths in gastrointestinal, neuroimmune, musculoskeletal, cardiorespiratory
systems and/or developmental biology. @socdevbio.bsky.social @ascbiology.bsky.social
systems and/or developmental biology. @socdevbio.bsky.social @ascbiology.bsky.social
Grateful to the Glaucoma Research Foundation (Glaucoma.org) for bringing the Catalyst for a Cure teams together to discuss strategies for neurodegenerative disorders: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
October 14, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Grateful to the Glaucoma Research Foundation (Glaucoma.org) for bringing the Catalyst for a Cure teams together to discuss strategies for neurodegenerative disorders: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
A very important resource!
Direct comparison of constitutive Rax-Cre transgenic drivers that activate in the mouse embryonic eye field https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.11.681822v1
October 13, 2025 at 8:20 PM
A very important resource!
New preprints from the lab (3)! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
October 10, 2025 at 3:01 PM
New preprints from the lab (3)! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Reposted by Anna La Torre
I am reminded tonight how important it is for women to be inspired by other brave, pioneering women as I watch dozens and dozens of women post gift links to Jane Goodall obituaries and articles
Keep it up, ladies.
Keep it up, ladies.
A voice for hope. We have lost an irreplaceable treasure.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Why Jane Goodall Still Has Hope for Us Humans (Gift Article)
“Traveling the world I’d see so many projects of restoration, people tackling what seemed impossible and not giving up.”
www.nytimes.com
October 1, 2025 at 8:29 PM
I am reminded tonight how important it is for women to be inspired by other brave, pioneering women as I watch dozens and dozens of women post gift links to Jane Goodall obituaries and articles
Keep it up, ladies.
Keep it up, ladies.
#FluorescenceFriday: a weekly reminder that behind the data, there are moments of pure wonder. This is why we do what we do. And the #retina is so uniquely beautiful!
September 19, 2025 at 4:42 PM
#FluorescenceFriday: a weekly reminder that behind the data, there are moments of pure wonder. This is why we do what we do. And the #retina is so uniquely beautiful!
New preprints from the lab!! (2)
Uncoupling Neocortical Neuron Fate and Migration via a Let-7-RBX2 Axis https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.11.675676v1
September 17, 2025 at 1:49 AM
New preprints from the lab!! (2)
🎉 New preprints from the lab! (1) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Novel Roles of Sonic Hedgehog Signaling in Retinal Patterning and Neurogenesis During Mammalian Eye Development
The Sonic Hedgehog (Shh) signaling pathway is essential for the patterning, growth, and morphogenesis of many tissues. During early eye development, Shh is critical for the formation of the two optic ...
www.biorxiv.org
September 17, 2025 at 1:43 AM
🎉 New preprints from the lab! (1) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
@ucdavis.bsky.social had a great representation at the BAVRD!
September 13, 2025 at 3:59 PM
@ucdavis.bsky.social had a great representation at the BAVRD!
Exciting news! Dr. Marie Burns has been appointed the new Director of the Center for Neuroscience, and it's hard to imagine a better choice for this position! @ucdaviscns.bsky.social @ucdavis.bsky.social @ucd-cbha.bsky.social
August 26, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Exciting news! Dr. Marie Burns has been appointed the new Director of the Center for Neuroscience, and it's hard to imagine a better choice for this position! @ucdaviscns.bsky.social @ucdavis.bsky.social @ucd-cbha.bsky.social
Such beautiful work!
Excited to share this study! We created a developmental atlas of the anterior segment of the eye and provide crucial molecular information that guides the development of Schlemm’s canal and trabecular meshwork cell subtypes. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Single-Cell Characterization of Anterior Segment Development: Cell Types, Pathways, and Signals Driving Formation of the Trabecular Meshwork and Schlemm's Canal
Morphogenesis of the anterior segment (AS) is crucial for healthy ocular physiology and vision but is only partially understood. The Schlemm's canal (SC) and trabecular meshwork (TM) are essential dra...
www.biorxiv.org
August 22, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Such beautiful work!
Our National Parks are treasures and we they need more than visitors, they need funding! Btw, #lassenvolcanicnationalpark is magical 💚
August 18, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Our National Parks are treasures and we they need more than visitors, they need funding! Btw, #lassenvolcanicnationalpark is magical 💚
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Snails with human-like eyes?!
Published in @natcomms.nature.com, the @planaria1.bsky.social & @accorsi-alice.bsky.social Labs have established apple snails as a novel model for studying vision restoration. They have complex camera-type eyes & the ability to regrow them in 28 days: bit.ly/4mvaxkq
Published in @natcomms.nature.com, the @planaria1.bsky.social & @accorsi-alice.bsky.social Labs have established apple snails as a novel model for studying vision restoration. They have complex camera-type eyes & the ability to regrow them in 28 days: bit.ly/4mvaxkq
August 6, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Snails with human-like eyes?!
Published in @natcomms.nature.com, the @planaria1.bsky.social & @accorsi-alice.bsky.social Labs have established apple snails as a novel model for studying vision restoration. They have complex camera-type eyes & the ability to regrow them in 28 days: bit.ly/4mvaxkq
Published in @natcomms.nature.com, the @planaria1.bsky.social & @accorsi-alice.bsky.social Labs have established apple snails as a novel model for studying vision restoration. They have complex camera-type eyes & the ability to regrow them in 28 days: bit.ly/4mvaxkq
Reposted by Anna La Torre
Congrats to @GGIPstudents and COVSL member Dr. Erin Hisey and her mentor @bcleonard on completing her exit seminar for her PhD! The future is super bright for her as she returns to complete her DVM @ucdavisvetmed.🍾🎉🎈#visionscience
August 6, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Congrats to @GGIPstudents and COVSL member Dr. Erin Hisey and her mentor @bcleonard on completing her exit seminar for her PhD! The future is super bright for her as she returns to complete her DVM @ucdavisvetmed.🍾🎉🎈#visionscience
Joseph is about to give a talk on his Hi-C data 🧃
July 25, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Joseph is about to give a talk on his Hi-C data 🧃
Congratulations to all! I'm so proud to have not one but two @ucd-physiology.bsky.social colleagues on this list! @doctheagrif.bsky.social and @elisazhang.bsky.social are rockstars and this is very well deserved!!! 🎉🎉
The 2025 Freeman Hrabowski Scholars | HHMI
Freeman Hrabowski Scholars are outstanding early career faculty who have the potential to become leaders in their research fields.
www.hhmi.org
June 19, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Congratulations to all! I'm so proud to have not one but two @ucd-physiology.bsky.social colleagues on this list! @doctheagrif.bsky.social and @elisazhang.bsky.social are rockstars and this is very well deserved!!! 🎉🎉